Author: Jake Buehler

North American sweat bees change color depending on the surrounding humidity. It might be a more widespread phenomenon among insects.

In 2000, researchers thought they found the oldest fossil octopus, which lived over 300 million years ago. But it may just be a half-rotten nautilus.

Hundreds of Chinese fossils from the dawn of animal evolution may change how scientists think of this critical period of prehistory.

Fossil jaw remains found in Egypt suggest that the earliest modern apes evolved in North Africa, not in East Africa where most fossils have been